UC Berkeley College of Engineering, CA A supercapacitor array made using a new fabrication technique that is faster and less expensive than photolithography. (Image: Peisheng He/UC Berkeley) Engineers at UC Berkeley have developed a new technique for making wearable sensors that enables medical rese

Tufts University, Medford, MA A drone in which the fuselage is embedded with sensor material. (Image: SilkLab) Researchers at Tufts School of Engineering have developed a method to detect bacteria, toxins, and dangerous chemicals in the environment with a biopolymer sensor that can be printed like i

University of Texas at Austin, TX Hongbian Li, a Research Associate in Professor Nanshu Lu’s lab. (Image: cockrell.utexas.edu) A research team at The University of Texas at Austin created a noninvasive electroencephalogram (EEG) sensor that was installed in a Meta VR headset that can be worn comfort

University of British Columbia, United Kingdom UBC’s Professor Dr. Peyman Servati demonstrating the smart glove. (Image: Lou Bosshart/UBC Media Relations) A new groundbreaking “smart glove” is capable of tracking the hand and finger movements of stroke victims during rehabilitation exercises. The gl

Home Software Article September 6, 2024 (Image: AdobeStock)With advancements like large language models, we are seeing increased integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into engineering processes. Design engineers of advanced machines and systems such as robots, medical devices, autom

Robotics & Automation INSIDER Robotics Institute researchers have developed a new method for autonomous aerial robot exploration and multirobot coordination inside abandoned buildings. (Credit: Carnegie Mellon University) An estimated 100 earthquakes worldwide cause damage each year. This damag

Power Electronics INSIDER Medium-voltage converters could offer a more affordable and efficient way to shuttle electricity from power plants to homes and businesses. NREL’s new testbed could help advance these promising technologies. (Image: Josh Bauer, NREL). To electrify everything from vehicles t

Home Test & Measurement Article September 27, 2024 (Image: makaule/Adobe Stock)Op amps have been ubiquitous for decades, originally built with vacuum tubes, then discrete transistors, then monolithic IC chips, such as the µA741, which is still in wide use today.How much do you know ab

Figure 1. Example of a battery test lab. (Image: Keysight) As the demand for EVs grows, it will be necessary to innovate batteries that achieve durability, power density, safety, lower cost, increased range, and faster recharge time using a fast, cost-effective, and energy-efficient process. One imp

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan When a human touches the robot, the robot changes its movement to avoid collision. (Image: Van Anh Ho from JAIST) In nature, many organisms like octopuses with their flexible tentacles or elephants with their trunks, exhibit remarka

Washington State University, Pullman, WA WSU Graduate Student Mohsen Amiri with Professor Mehdi Hosseinzadeh are working to make robots safer by making them more aware of human carelessness. (Image: WSU.edu) A new algorithm may make robots safer by making them more aware of human inattentiveness. In

Start your car, fill a glass of water from the tap, or mix cooking oil into your brownie batter, and you are using a liquid that has been carefully extracted, processed, and assessed for quality. The staggering forethought and technology that goes into making such fluids usable by consumers is often

Figure 1. Cutting forces in machining can be measured indirectly with high accuracy, applying piezoelectric strain sensors such as the 9232A from Kistler. (Image: Kistler Group) High productivity, low manufacturing costs, and high workpiece quality: these are the key factors that deliver sustainabil

University of California, San Diego Experimental setup consisting of one sensor chip detecting lead ions in a drop of water. (Image: Courtesy of Bandaru Lab/UC San Diego) Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed an ultra-sensitive sensor made with graphene that can detect e

AutomationDirect, Cumming, GA Figure 1. Traditional PLCs and classic ladder — like the AutomationDirect Productivity family using classic ladder logic programming — still play an important role and have gained many modern capabilities, even though their development environment is dedicated. (Image:

Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon, South Korea Metamaterial developed by KRISS. (Image: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) has developed a metamaterial that traps and amplifies micro-vibrations in

Motion Design INSIDER From left to right: Sandia National Laboratories electrical engineer Prabodh Jahveri, intern Will Barrett, technologist Michael Fleigie, and intern Summer Czarnowski prepare a payload for a weather balloon launch. (Image: Craig Fritz) Dangling from a weather balloon 80,000 feet

Motion Design INSIDER In a study with rhesus monkeys, neuroscientists at the German Primates Center have investigated how the functionality of brain-computer interfaces and thus also the fine motor skills of neuroprostheses can be improved. (Image: Andres Agudelo-Toro) Researchers at the German Prim

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea This novel system features a slit-like elliptical aperture and a patterned metal reflector to improve object detection and recognition in various lighting conditions. The design effectively reduces light interference and enhances photosensitivity, e

One market that ABS Group is targeting for its ultrasonic scanning technology for composite materials is the boat repair industry, where it can assess damages or defects that can’t be seen on the surface. (Image: Getty Images) Shipbuilders didn’t have the option of fiberglass when the nonprofit Amer